Some thoughts on microblogging with self-hosted WordPress
So I’ve been experimenting with microblogging on Mastadon, micro.blog and Tumblr. I decided it’s time we have our own self-hosted WordPress microblog…
Sunday is drawing day with Gilda Shannon
Sunday is drawing day lately. Good church for atheists and others. (@gildashannon) #buttdrawingforthewin #sherwindraws
Some more information here on …
Some more information here on microformats for microblogging: micropub. Also, here’s my outpost on micro.blog.
A good read on microblogging …
A good read on microblogging, and how to set up WordPress for microblogging using post formats. Good points.
Here we go. Microblogging tools: …
Here we go. Microblogging tools: Custom post type Plugin to help with custom URLs Function to help with auto generating titles from content Function to help with auto generating URLs from titles Optional plugin to clean editor interface including titles For display: microtopic-taxonomy.php ?? single-microblog.php archive-microblog.php Hmm, here’s an alternative method: https://torquemag.io/2015/05/adding-microblog-within-wordpress-blog/
Testing publishing a microblog with …
Testing publishing a microblog with no title. :) Works great: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/52896/force-post-slug-to-be-auto-generated-from-title-on-save Now I just need to figure out how to move the title down in interface.
First, autogenerate title from post …
First, autogenerate title from post content with a function. Then, autogenerate permalink from title with a function (plugin). Then, heh heh, hide the title.
What happens when I publish …
What happens when I publish with no title? Titles are friction. http://help.micro.blog/2018/setting-up-wordpress/ But titles from the post title in the head. And title also form a meaningful permalink. This is interesting how micro.blog handles titles: https://sherwin.micro.blog/2018/02/22/check-testing-squrrk.html This makes sense to me; the first few words form the permalink and the page title. Hmm, permalinks should include year…
Anadrome, semordnilap and levidrome: a whimsical example of problematic information
How a heartwarming news story about an interesting linguistic phenomenon widely mislead people that there are no words to describe that spell different words when they’re reversed…
Best socks ever
Best socks ever. Thanks friends. Dobby is a free elf.
The Sun is Setting on the British Empire
The Sun is Setting on the British Empire. #CarolTheverge #MarianneNicholson #AGGV #YYJ #VictoriaBC #LkwungenLand #BritishEmpire
I hope everyone votes yes
I hope everyone (UVic students) votes and votes yes! Yay violence prevention and yay supporting survivors! Yay @anti.violence.project! #UVic #UVSS #uvicpix #victoriabc #letsgetconsensual
More nuanced theories of journalism needed
A good theory of journalism helps us understand what media are not journalistic. And, equally important, a theory helps us understand what unconventional kinds of media are journalistic…
UBCIC Rejects Canada150 Celebrations
Republished with permission: “Canada150” is not representative of the history of our lands and territories, or of our present realities as Indigenous Peoples. We, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), cannot, in all good conscience, participate in, and will not celebrate…
Fixing the HTTPS on a Knight Lab TimelineJS instance
Last year I used TimelineJS to create a nice interactive timeline of some misogynist tweets by Colby Cosh. After we added HTTPS to our website, the article never properly encrypted…
A newspaper is an index
What does an Auto Trader, a phone book, a card catalog, a post office, a mall map, Google and a newspaper all have in common…
Looks like Becky has been doing fun Sunday projects
People who make clothes are engineers. IMHO.
Nine animals that we should be trophy hunting instead of bears
I’ve been wracking my brain trying to think of how to help stop the commercial trophy hunting of bears in BC, which is ongoing and totally unethical. But I’m pretty smart, so I put this problem in my mind-vice and I’m a genius…
Reality testing and learning to change our opinions
Being able to accept and integrate new information is an emotional intelligence skill. Many of us think of reality testing as cognitive intelligence. To really grapple deeply with this, consider this funny thing about humans…
Meet the tiny Calgary Flames fan, big enough to cheer for the Edmonton Oilers
The Flames are done for the Season. They were beaten in four straight games and finished last week. And now the Oilers will go on and Flames fans will have to decide…
Islamophobia in media
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/islamophobia-persistent-in-the-media-journalist-says-1.4069455
Globe and Mail editorial: Canada 150
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/indigenous-peoples-and-the-need-for-a-way-forward-made-in-canada/article34568640/ Murray Sinclair: http://aptnnews.ca/2017/04/04/sen-murray-sinclair-blasts-globe-and-mail-for-propagating-racist-fallacy/ Establishment newspapers propagate myth of the empty land and then wonder why trust in #journalism is low. #cdnmedia https://t.co/QSC0COHEVB — Sherwin Arnott (@sherwinarnott) April 4, 2017 Why don't residential school survivors 'get over it'? @SenSincmurr respondsLISTEN @TheCurrentCBC https://t.co/a4171t8i6Q#thecurrentMMIW pic.twitter.com/bZxGxy53rn — CBC Radio (@cbcradio) April 4, 2017 The Globe's Editorial position on…
Follow up reading
http://www.nafeezahmed.com/ https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor/